New Graphene Electronic Tattoo for Tracking Internet of Things and Biometric IDs
By Nicholas West New biometric tracking methods seem to be rolled out by the day for policing, travel, banking, medical applications, and beyond. February of…
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Microchipping Humans: First They Traded Freedom for Security, Now It’s Privacy for Convenience
By Claire Bernish If a steel truth exists in decades of technological innovation, it rests firmly in the convenience provided society — indeed, while the…
Facial Recognition ID Moves from Planes and Trains to Conferences and Events
By Nicholas West The use of biometric identification is becoming a real-time case study in how the public is incrementally conditioned to accept the total…
Facial Recognition ID Begins to Spread from Planes to Trains
By Nicholas West The march continues to accelerate toward a future of biometric ID for all travel. Regular readers might know that over the past…
Police Body Cameras to be Equipped with Facial Recognition
By Nicholas West Given the steady roll-out of biometrics in banking, personal computing, and travel as of late, it seemed to be just a matter…
DHS Outlines Mandatory Biometric ID at Airports for Foreign Travel
By Nicholas West What at first seemed like creeping tip-toe incrementalism toward the use of biometric ID for travel is quickly becoming a warp-speed reality….
TSA Wants to Know What Books You’re Reading Before Allowing You to Board Planes
By Derrick Broze The federal government will soon begin searching through travelers’ books at the airport as airlines test out fingerprint scans. Next time you choose…
Privacy Organization Urges Congress to Examine FBI’s Secret Biometric ID Program
By Nicholas West While the general public is still in the dark about the arrival of biometric identification that is taking place in nearly every…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Reveals Next Level of Biometric ID at Airports
By Nicholas West Over the last month, some very stark writing has appeared on the wall regarding the advancement of mandatory biometric IDs being imposed…
3D Facial Recognition Technology On Brink Of Commercial Breakthrough
By University of the West of England A 3D facial recognition system could be used commercially in the UK for the first time as part…
First Arrest Made From Cameras Linked To Public Facial Recognition Database
By Josie Wales U.K. police recently made their first arrest using facial recognition software following a series of trials at large-scale public events. According to…
JetBlue Joins Delta In Push Toward Biometric ID; Partners With U.S. Customs And Border Protection
By Nicholas West We are accelerating to a full-on police state where “papers please” is set to be replaced by a less-intrusive biometric scan. It…
Airline Begins Testing Augmented Reality Smart Glasses To Read Travelers’ Emotions
By Nicholas West It appears that air travel is going to be the new frontier for high-tech privacy invasion taking place in the name of…
Delta Airlines Introducing Facial Recognition For Travelers
By Nicholas West The desire for security, efficiency and convenience is a narrative that continues to incrementally condition the population to accept the erosion of…